"During Thursday's rehearsal, NASA was able to fuel the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with more than 700,000 gallons of liquid propellant and complete two runs of terminal count - the final step of the launch countdown - at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. While there was a hiccup due to a loss of ground communications, NASA was able to move to a backup system before the regular comms channels were back in operation."
""Following that successful wet dress yesterday, we're now targeting March 6 as our earliest launch attempt," Dr. Lori Glaze, NASA's Moon to Mars program manager, said at a press conference on Friday. Glaze added that there's still much that has to be done before launch, including an analysis of the wet dress, a flight-readiness review and work on the launch pad."
NASA completed a successful wet dress rehearsal for Artemis 2, fueling the SLS with over 700,000 gallons of liquid propellant and running two terminal count sequences. Ground communications briefly failed, but teams switched to a backup system and engineers identified the faulty equipment. NASA set March 6 as the earliest possible launch date, pending wet dress analysis, a flight-readiness review, and pad work. The four Artemis 2 astronauts will enter quarantine ahead of the ten-day mission. Orion will carry its first crew on a lunar flyby, marking the first crewed journey around the Moon in more than 50 years and the farthest human voyage in history. The crew will test critical life-support systems as preparation for future lunar landings.
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